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: Alfred Cortot
(piano)Chopin Studies. Op 10
Schumann Etudes symphoniques, Op 13: records
Contributors
Piano:
Chopin
Studies.
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: Your Concert Choice
Listeners' record requestsMacCunn Overture: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
9.14. Gerald Finzi Dies natalis WILFRED BROWN (tenor)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted bv CHRISTOPHER FINZI
9.37* Gustav Holst A Moorside Suite, for brass band BMC (OXFORD) BAND conducted by IMOGEN HOLST S.51* Bliss Piano Concerto
TREVOR BARNARD. PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
Contributors
Conducted By:
Sir Alexander
Gibson
Conducted By:
Gerald
Finzi
Tenor:
Wilfred
Brown
Unknown:
Christopher
Finzi
Unknown:
Gustav
Holst
Conducted By:
Imogen
Holst
Unknown:
Trevor
Barnard.
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm
Sargent
: Music Now
A weekly survey of the world of music with the artists and personalities who create it, including a conversation with Kerstin Meyer.Producer DENYS GUEROOLT
Contributors
Unknown:
Kerstin
Meyer.
Producer:
Denys
Gueroolt
: Boston Symphony Orchestra
For his first appearance with the orchestra, in January 1975, the young British conductor Andrew Davis chose two master-pieces of the British orchestral repertoirePart 1 Tippett
Ritual Dances (The Midsummer Marriage)
Contributors
Conductor:
Andrew
Davis
: Words....
Anthony Thwaite , poet and editor, reflects on some of the things we say and write, BBC Manchester(Repeated: Wed 10.30 am)
Contributors
Unknown:
Anthony
Thwaite
: Let the Peoples Sing
International Amateur Choral Competition (9): Semi-finals Large ChoirNorthern Ireland:
BANGOR PARISH CHURCH CHOIR School Class: Semi-final
Hungary: CHOIR OF THE NO PRIMARY SCHOOL, MISKOLC Canada:
CENTENNIAL MEISTERSINGERS Bulgaria:
TOLBUHIN CHILDREN'S CHOIR
Introduced by Bernard Keeffe
(Let the Peoples Sing is organised by the BBC with the EBU)
Contributors
Introduced By:
Bernard
Keeffe
: String Quartets
from the Berlin Festival 1976 Fifth of seven programmes COMPOSERS STRING QUARTET Ives ScherzoBarber String Quartet. Op 11 Schuller String Quartet No 1 (SFB Berlin recording) followed by an interlude
: A Malcolm Williamson Double Bill
Part 1: Julius Caesar Jones Opera in two actsLibretto by GEOFFREY DUNN Adults:
Children:
FINCHLEY CHILDREN'S MUSIC GROUP INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by JOHN ANDREWES
The scene is inside and in the garden of No 37 Mortimer Rise.
3.20* Basil Rathbone reads The Happy Prince by OSCAR WILDE. gramophone record
3.40* Malcolm Williamson Part 2: The Happy Prince Opera in one act
Libretto by THE COMPOSER after the story by OSCAR WILDE
GUILDHALL CHAMBER CHOIR
JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR, ACADEMY OF ST MARTlN-IN-THE-FIELDS STRING QUINTET, JAMES HOLLAND and TRISTAN FRY (percussion)
THE COMPOSER and RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT (pianodueti, conducted by MARCUS DODS : records
Contributors
Unknown:
Geoffrey
Dunn
Conducted By:
John
Andrewes
Unknown:
Basil
Rathbone
Unknown:
Oscar
Wilde.
Unknown:
Malcolm
Williamson
Story By:
Oscar
Wilde
Unknown:
John
Alldis
Unknown:
James
Holland
Pianodueti:
Richard Rodney
Bennett
Unknown:
Marcus
Dods
Mr Everett (Jimmie):
Michael
Maurel (baritone)
Mrs Everett (Ann):
April
Cantelo (soprano)
Mrs Whyley (Nora):
Norima
Procter (mezzo-Sop)
John Everett:
Michael
Gingold
Elizabeth Everett:
Elizabeth
Eatwell
Ambrose Everett:
Nigel
Dant
Susan Whyley:
Hilary
Ann Salinger
Harvey Tooley Savidge (Ambrose's friend).:
Richard
Kahn
Julius Caesar Jones:
David
Pinto
Prince:
Pauline
Stevens (mezzo-Sop)
Swallow:
April
Cantelo (sop)
Mayor:
Sheila
Rex (contralto)
Seamstress:
Jean
Allister (mezzo-Sop)
Her son:
Margaret
Humphrey-Clark (sop)
Author:
Maureen
Lehane (contralto)
Matchgirl:
Iris
Kells (soprano)
: Messiaen's Piano Music
Catalogue d'oiseaux, Books 4-7 YVONNE LORIOD (piano) Sixth of seven programmes in which all Messiaen's music for piano is played. ROBERT SHERLAW JOHNSON introduces the series,Contributors
Piano:
Yvonne
Loriod
Introduces:
Robert Sherlaw
Johnson
: Drama Now
AG by GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI , a re-texturing for stereo of Aeschylus's Agamemnon in the translation by RICHMOND LATTIMORE with Music by Christos PittasAgamemnon tells the story of the triumphal return from Troy of the King of Argos, with the slave-girl Cassandra, and his murder in a tub of water by his wife Klytemestra. In AG it is presented, in radio terms, from inside out; it is broken down into fragments of sounds and words, in order to explore the tragic image of man advancing towards inevitable death.
Singers MARTYN HILL , MEMBERS OF THE BBC SINGERS, with a section Of the PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON conducted by THE COMPOSER Technical assistance
JOCK FARRELL , LLOYD SILVERTHORNE PENNY LEICESTER , ROY MILANI Radiophonic realisation DICK MILLS. Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
It was the total effect that mattered, and that was extraordinarily impressive.
(FRANCIS DILLON , The Listener)
Contributors
Unknown:
Gabriel
Josipovici
Unknown:
Richmond
Lattimore
Music By:
Christos
Pittas
Singers:
Martyn
Hill
Unknown:
Jock
Farrell
Unknown:
Penny
Leicester
Unknown:
Roy
Milani
Unknown:
Dick
Mills.
Directed By:
John
Theocharis
Unknown:
Francis
Dillon
Agamemnon:
Timothy
West
Klytemestra:
Jill
Balcon
Cassandra:
Maureen
O'Brien
Watchman:
Timothy
Bateson
Herald:
John
Rowe
Chorus:
Christopher
Bidmead
Chorus:
William
Eedle,
Chorus:
David
Graham
Chorus:
Leslie
Heritage,
Chorus:
Jeffrey
Segal
Children:
Shirley
Dixon,
Children:
Jane
Knowles
: Proms 77
direct from the Royal Albert Hall , LondonDavid Rendall (tenor)
BBC Choral Society
Goldsmiths Choral Union Conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
London Symphony Chorus director RICHARD HICKOX Southend Boys' Choir director MICHAEL CRABB
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden leader JOHN BROWN conductor Colin Davis Part 1 Beethoven
Symphony No 6, in f (Pastoral)
Contributors
Unknown:
Albert
Hall
Leader:
John
Brown
Conductor:
Colin
Davis
: Conversationswith Cardus
When once asked his views on the after-life, Sir Neville Cardus replied: ' believe in life before death.' Certainly few people have lived it more fully, or with greater enjoyment.In the second of two programmes Robin Daniels introduces a selection from the reminiscences of Sir Neville Cardus , recorded over the last years of his life.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT.
Contributors
Unknown:
Sir Neville
Cardus
Introduces:
Robin
Daniels
Unknown:
Sir Neville
Cardus
Producer:
John
Knight.
: Proms 77
Part 2 Berlioz Te Deum(A quadraphonic broadcast using Matrix H, compatible for both stereo and mono receivers) (Part 2 of this concert can be seen on BBCl at 10.10 pm)
: Precious Sage
Simon and Rosalind Harcourt -Smith remember a Peking 'reunion'.Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT followed by an interlude
Contributors
Unknown:
Rosalind
Harcourt
Producer:
Piers
Plowright
: Joseph Kalichstein
(piano)Schumann Davidsbiindlertanze , Op 6
Chopin Ballade No 4, in r minor, Op 52
Contributors
Piano:
Schumann
Davidsbiindlertanze
: Roberto GerhardSymphonies
Fourth of five programmes In which his symphonies and Concerto for Orchestra are played by the BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA here conducted by COLIN DAVIS Symphony No 4 (New York: 1967): recordContributors
Conducted By:
Colin
Davis
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